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Piss Piece
My alter ego Allan Fish was one of the nine artists in the show [Sound Art]. Again, as in Richmond, the artist sent instructions for the curator to perform the work. I was announcing all the artists performances as they occurred, and I announced I…
The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art
In 1969 I had to have a way of exhibiting because I felt like exhibiting. It was too politically complicated to try to exhibit my work and be a curator at the same time for a combination of reasons which are probably obvious. So I had to exhibit…
Allan Fish Drinks a Case of Beer
In 1969 I had to have a way of exhibiting because I felt like exhibiting. It was too politically complicated to try to exhibit my work and be a curator at the same time for a combination of reasons which are probably obvious. So I had to exhibit…
Handcuff: Linda Montano and Tom Marioni
For three days Tom Marioni and I were handcuffed together. For ten minutes each day we made a video document of the event. The time together became a study in movement and mutual signaling.(Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
Linda Montano came to me…
Café Society
Breen’s Bar, Salon of MOCA, the site of Marioni’s Café Society, where on Wednesdays from 2-4 p.m. artists would meet and exchange ideas and energy. Beer was free. Marioni’s “concept of Café Society is drunken…
A participation piece by Willoughby Sharp Opening the Museum of Conceptual Art
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A Collaboration between Allan Fish and Tom Marioni
Richard Beggs taped my heartbeat – put it on a loop and with an oscillating machine speeded it up to a 4/4 tempo equil. to a heartbeat at its fastest. the piece was 34 mins. long. first 15 min. was the heartbeat slowing down to a Dead stop. while…
The Creation, a Seven Day Performance
I lived in the gallery for a week making art actions each day that related to the creation of the world as described in the Bible.(Marioni 1997: 17)
lecture/demonstration
In 1973 at the University Art Museum Berkeley I made a demonstration about intention. I called it “lecture/demonstration” because I meant it to be instructional. I outlined a square area with masking tape on the floor of the museum’s central open…
Drum Brush Lecture
I made my first drum brush drawings in 1972 and I continue to make these drawings, which are inspired by the automatic writing of the surrealist movement. The drawings are the result of rubbing and beating with steel wire drum brushes ( like jazz…